MANDURAH Bridge Club members took part in the Bridge for Brains Research Challenge at Bortolo Pavillion this month.

Funds raised from the event went to Neuroscience Research Australia for Alzheimer’s and dementia research.

NeuRA researchers are working on improving early diagnosis of dementia and developing treatments to prevent the disease altogether.

The launch of the challenge coincided with new findings that revealed which areas of the brain were affected in dementia and why this leads to a lack of empathy in some people with dementia but not others.